This is a writing exercise designed to assess where your students are at the beginning of third grade.

A magical pirate scene serves as a prompt for young writers in this creative writing worksheet.

Students will craft their own essay using this graphic organizer as a helpful way to get started.

Children follow the prompts to plan and draft a short opinion piece in this engaging three-page template guide.

Encourage your second graders to develop a well-reasoned argument about the length of recesses with this writing prompt and rubric. Students can use the pre-writing planner to develop their argument, then they'll write out their opinion on page two.

Got questions about quotations marks? No problem! This worksheet will help your child build his grammar and punctuation skills.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an informative essay with this engaging problem-solving activity.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Mapping out your thoughts before you start writing is key to a well-organized essay. Your students will map their first draft of a personal narrative using this graphic organizer.

Give your students some practice writing an informational essay about the American Revolution!

Once students have completed a first draft of narrative writing, use this handy checklist to guide them through the peer review process. Students will look for clear sequencing, compelling details, complete sentences, and correct spelling and punctuation.

Did you know that kids all over the globe know of the boogeyman? This cautionary tale is told in almost every country!

This two-page practice template guides young authors through the process of writing strong hooks, including tips, best practices, and common pitfalls.

Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Before your third grader puts on a costume, have him practice writing sentences that support a single topic. The topic of this worksheet? The fun of Halloween!

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

What is one thing that makes a good friend? Answer this question and more about friends in this worksheet by filling in the blanks to complete the sentences.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Spin a spooky tale with a creative writing card game, perfect for a dark and creepy Halloween night around the campfire.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

Your students will be ready to write with this paragraph writing worksheet!

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.